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The times., 1887-05-13
Southwest Caledonia.

Farmers of this vicinity are getting
their spring work along finely and
every thing bids fair to be a bountilul
year.
General peace feigns, now that the
busy house wife has so nearly scratch
ed out the winter dirt.
Mr.. o. A. Taggett of Caro- form
er boot and shoe dealer in Corunna is
spending a few days with friends. {.
Miss linda Aiken is spending the
week with her grand parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Harris of Corunna.
A number OF dogs seem to be very
fond of prowling around in this vicin-
ity as soon as night falls, disturbing
the general peace, and if their owners
consider them valuable our advice
would be to take care OF them or they
may come up missing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Johnson are
now nicely settled in their home on
the McCurdy farm.
Mrs. Wicking, who has been very
i'll for the past six months. is slowly
recovering.
The fishing season has now nicely
opened up, and the small boy (as well
as some of the larger ones) can now
be seen wandering toward the river,
at all times a day. WAUNIrA.
The times., 1887-05-13
Council Proceedings.
COMMON COUNCIL ROOM,
Owosso, MAY 9TH, 1887.


Regular meeting Of the Common
Council of the city of Owosso; Mayor
Calkins in the chair.
Present, Aid. Frieseke, Robbins,
Keyte, Wells, Wolverton, Titcomb,
Wiley and Gould.
Minutes of last meeting read and
corrected.
Aid. Frieseke presented the follow
ing petition, signed by c. ]. Begole
and eight others, which was referred
to the committee on grading and
sidewalks:
To the Hon. Mayor and Common
Council of the city of Owosso.
We, the undersigned residents of
the city of Owosso, would most re-
spectfully petition your honorable
body, and pray that you will cause to
be constructed a sidewalk on the east
side of Howell street, commencing
on the north side Of River street and
extending to the south side of Main
street.
The following accounts were pre-
sented and referred to the committee
on claims and accounts:
A K Giles, nightwa,ch, $II 90
w Barrestord, Q 90
f Martin, city teamster, "a 90
N M Garrett, repairs for city
scraper, 8 90
w p Steadman, building side
walks and repairing bridges, 6 sS
J H Champion & Co,printing, "A az
The city attorney made verbal
reports in regard to the claim of
Moses Taggart, and in regard to the
case of Woodbury. VS.. The City Of
Owosso. In the latter case he said
the motion for a new trial had been
denied, and asked the Council for
instruction in the matter as to pro-
ceeding farther.
The street commissioner made a
verbal report in regard to the tools,
etc., of the city; and was instructed
by the Council to have all sidewalks
put in repair at once.
The city marshal reported that the
SUM of eight dollars was received for
the old harness sold, and the money
deposited in the bank by R, Camp
bell.
The committee on claims and ac-
counts reported favorably on the
accounts OF A X Giles, w Barresford,
E Martin and WP Steadman, az
presented. The report was accepted,
unanimous consent given and the
accounts allowed, ayes nays o.
The same committee also reported
favorably on the bills of F Smith and
E Wiswell, for So; Bailey Mtg. Co.,
s.. 75;Owosso Gas Light Co., .,SI53.7s,
held over. The report was accepted
and the accounts allowed, ayes 8 nays
An Ordinance for building side
walk on Lansing street in front Of
lots 3, and 7, block 9, was read the
third time and placed on its passage
and passed, ayes 8 nays o.
An Ordinance for grading Fletcher
street from Cedar street west to the
terminus of said Fletcher street, was
read the third time and placed on its
passage and passed, ayes 8 nays O.
The liquor bond of Alonzo B. Sar-
gent and John M. Vinkle, with Lewis
Bird and William Sturtevant as sure
ties, was presented and on motion
the bond was accepted and. the sure
ties approved, ayes 8 nays o.
Aid. Titcomb offered the following
resolution, which was accepted and
adopted, ayes: Aid. Frieseke. Rob.
The times., 1887-05-13
That Tired Feeling

Season is here again, and nearly every
every one feels weak, languid, and
exhausted. The blood, laden with
impurities which had accumulated
for months, moves sluggishly through
the veins, the mind fails to think
quickly, and the body is still slower
TO respond. Hoods Sarsaparilla is
the ideal spring medicine. 1t purifies
vitalizes, and enriches the blood,
makes the head clear, creates an appe-
tite, overcomes that tired feeling, and
imparts new strength and vigor to the
whole body.
The times., 1887-05-13
/ am Selling
CASH


81 lbs. gran. Sugar for 50c
8 +" Confectioner's A.
Sugar, 80
% lbs. white G.. Sugar, so
10 " choice {" 30.
II " yellow" (" 50
6 +" cut loaf +" 90
Pure Sugar Syrup( light) 80
Extra Syrup Drips, 40
20 bars best brands Soap, so
Best Tea(very bestViolet) 40
AS good as soc. Tea, for 80
Rosy favored choice Tea, 25
Best Tea Siftings, 20
Choice Dust Tea, 10
Best Dust Tea, Is
IL boxes Matches, for 10
Best Saleratus, 07
New Prunes, 4 lbs, %
lb. bags Smoking Tobac-
co, lO
Clean Sifted Fine Cut, %
Kentucky Plug Tobacco, 20
Best Light cut Tobacco, so
Fresh bulk Cocoanut, 20
Royal Cocoanut, 80
Choice blk. Baking Pow,
der, 15c, 2 lbs. for %
Royal Baking Powder, 40
DR.. Prices Baking Pow.
der, 40
Pearl, and Horsford's
Baking Powder, 40
Best Brooms, 20
at. cans Mixed Pickles, 25
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-20
LIST OF LETTERS
ANS WERED.

Remaining IN the Dostofhce at Fort Worth. lex,
Monday, May 10, 1857. To obtain any of thess1
letters, the applicant must call for advertised
letters" and give the date Of this list
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-20
Fast Nail for Sherman.

Speclal TO The Gazette
SHERMAN, TEN, May 1.-THE "Csn-
non Bail" or fast mail and passenger
trains onthe Texas snd Pacific and Iron
Mountain Railways, will DE put on be-
tween this city and ST. Louis, beginning
tomorrow morning, and viii run through
without change. The new schedule is IS
follows: Lesve Sherman at 6:l0 g. m,
arrives st ST. Louis ST 6 :30a. N. Leaves
s.. Louis at 10 p. m, arrives st Sherman
ST 1915 p. m, distance go miles. The
foregoing is the result of the strenuous eff
forts CT tse citizens Of Sherman, who
have been st work for some time, En-
des7oringz to secure fast Ipaiis TO the
..zfsgth anffast. .rs 20
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-20
Eor Pubic Publication.
Sherman Democrat


The Fort Worth GAZETTE publishes
more prohibition literature, pro aud con,
than any other paper in the state. 1t
does not publish the extravaganza asser-
tons of the extremists, but when an argu-
ment on either side turns up, THE GA
ZETTE scissors it forthwith.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-20

New York City has $4,000 landlords,
w1o collect 10000, 900 rent.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-20

Continued on Seventh Page,
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-20
WHITE FLOWER;
OR.
THE COMANCHES DREAM.
A Romance OF Savage Chiyalry and
Texan YaIor in the Days
Of Slavery.
BY the late COL. e. Z. @. JUDsoN

INEU BUNIL!NE,I
1851, bys#iIuam Caldwell. All
rs rishtsEeseryed,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-11-18
WOMEN As JOURNALISTS.

1t is one of the signs of our advancing
civilization that new fields of occupation
for women are constantly being suggested
and opened up. Miss Frances E. Willard,
in the Brooklyn Times, makes the follow
ing plea FOR the employment of women as
journalists:
Newspapers need women more than
women need newspapers. Fewer tobacco
cobwebs in air and brain and less alco-
holic ink are the prime necessities of cur
rent journalism. Mixed with the mira
culous good of journalism note the random
statements given to-day only that they may
be taken back to- morrow. Note the n.y.
perbolism of heads not level, the sensa-
tionalsm, the low details not lawful to be
uttered, the savagery of the pugilist and
baseball columns, the beery mental flavor,
the bitter gall dipped from the editorial
inlsstand and spattercd on political oppon
is a camp and not family circle; half
sphere, not a whole one.
But the journalistic temperament is al
most the finest in the world; keen, kind,
progressive and humanitarian. Take away
the halucination of nicotine and the craze
of alcoholic dreams, and you would have
remaining an incompatible set of brother
hearted men, whose glmpses OF God would
be not at all infrequent. Anchor alongside
of these chivalric-natured experts women
as gifted as themselves, free from their
drug delusions; then, in one-quarter CEN
fury, you will have driven pugilists and
saloon-keepers, ward politicians and Jeza-
bells from the sacred temple of journalism,
and the peoples daily open letter from the
great world shall be pure as letter from
home
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-11-18

holiday time is good investment. These
good to be remembered. To have eaten
turkey together may be a bond.
Nothing is small and unimportant in
this world, and the pleasurable emotion
dining room on Thanksgiving day predis-
poses to kind thoughts and good deeds
.5terwards.
While we may think we'll of the motto,
means follows that one is the direct result
of the other. If this were SO the man who
carries his dinner in tin pail and eats it
by the roadside should rank with the phil
osopher who dimes with the king.
What shall we do IN Than ksgiving night9
In some homes scattered families can unite
and enjoy enlivening converse; in others
the young folks" will entertain or be en-
comes dull period between seven and ten
which ought some how to be delightfully."-
filled. Father and mother and the young
children can engage in games, of course,
if some one will suggest it. One pastime
recommended is this: let father or mother
or one of the older of the group of child
rem tell story; then let one of the little
ones repeat it; this sometimes gives great
entertainment.
They are all the so-called card games,
historical, literary and scientific, and the
time honored authors is a good one, even
ifplayed without enthusiasm. This is one
of those games which may descend into the
kitchen, if obliged TO leave the children in
care of the maid, and it has often proved
divertng to us to see Bridget who has
been over but few months. and still re-
tains enough of the brogue to be interest
ing, calling out, ''give me Charles Dick
ems, ''giye me Misther Shakespeare
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-11-18
DON'T STIMULATE THE YOUNG.

If you give to healthy man of twenty,
who has never tasted it, either cup of
tea or coffee, it will keep him awake all
night. If you give to one who has never
drank fermented or distilled liquors, a
glass of beer, wine or weak whiskey and
water, it will make him more or less dizzy,
and perhaps give i'm a headache. If you
persuade one who has never smoked, to
try cigar it will probably nauseate him,
and for time make him severely sick.
Now. what is the conclusion fiom these
facts? Simply that tea, coffee, fermented
and distilled liquors, and tobacco are in
their nature med icinal; are, in brief,
drugs, and that, at least while the body
is growing, while it still has super-abun-
dance of vital force, it does no. need
either the preventative properties of tea
or coffee, or the digestive and tonic ones
of wine. beer or brandy, or the soothing
power of tobacco, to keep it in health
and well-being; but that on the contrary
when the youthful system is in its natural
state and either is offered it, disturbance,
more or less pronounced, is the result.
What terrible responsibility, then, do
mothers and fathers incur who from baby
hood allow their children to drink tea and
coffee-nay, before the little things think
of asking for it, tempt them to sip it out
of their own teaspoon Boston Post.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-11-18
TALK WITH THE BOYS.

Distance lends enchantment, and the
| city looks we'll from the farms. Perhaps
you do not see the thorns and thistles,
but they grow in the city. Home disci-
pline may be hard to bear but in it are
the germs of all successes. Parents are
midway in the temple of life, and GER
| tainly must know more than those stand
| ing upon the threshold. 1t is always safe
| to listen to the voices of wisdom and
affection. You may not be permitted to
control all things at home, but please re-
member before seeki ing the larger liberty
here. You may wear store clothes, but
you must be the servant of all. Liberty
and ease are the fruits of toll.
The boy who knows more than his
parents and teachers, goes to the wall in
the city. Success depends upon industry,
obedience, economy and purity. Brown
hands, clean tongues and pure hearts are
IN great demand in the city. country
loafer becomes city loafer, and neither
country or city crowns loafers. The earth
quake never breaks the ground SO as to
heave the gold at their feet. BOYS whose
noble and manly lives are the guiding i'm
pulse of the pastors hand when writing
letters of commentator, receive the most
cordial welcome from merchants here.
There is famine of boys who feel that
God is watching them, and who are true
to their employers because of loyalty to
their heavenly Master. The demand for
such is always greater than the supply.
In the city you must begin way down, but
smilingly submit to the inevitable. and
make each day tell how much, and not
| how little, good work you can do, and you
will be in the line of promotion.
| Never desire to coin dollar except
around the golden rule.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-11-18
TOO TRUE.

Many people are bursting and running
over with ''reform and Temperance prin-
ciples' and Saving the downfallen," until
it touches their pockets and then they haul
in like turtle. If people who profess
temperance would go down in their jeans
once year and fish out couple of dollars
and contribute it to the cause by way OF
Subscription to some good local temperance
paper, it would help the cause more than
a whole bushel of profession" Probably
you are so utterly good and reformed that
you don't need to read a temperance paper
yourself. So much the better then, have
it sent to some one who will be benefited
by reading it.-Er.
We commend the above for our readers
to pass around to their prohibition (?)
neighbors. We have many such reforme RS
iu every corner in this state. The Echo.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-11-18
OUR SLEEPING ROOMS.

1t is to be regretted that paperings or
carpetings should ever be used in the sleep
ing ROOM Alas! what evil is lurking in
the area Of the four square walls which en-
compass us! What enemy is that, although
trodden upon, yet is not subdued! Let the
walls Of our sleeping rooms be kalsomined
and the carpets removed from the floors.
Let the crevices be carefully filled with
putty (any one can do this), and the floor
neatly painted or stained. A rug at the
bedside, with small ones at the bureau and
commode (Kensington rugs, will relieve
the nakedness of the floor. These should
be carried out weekly, thoroughly shaken,
and exposed for an hour to sun and wind.
Towels and washstands used during the
day should never remain in the room dur
ing the night. | have seen washcloths,
used day after day in sleeping room, be-
come sour and musty, emitting strong
odor both disagreeable and unhealthy.
The watercan and the entire toilet set
must be kept perfectly sweet and pure.
L 10 HOJ iutdH ufoIcly Cledu W tit eye, DuO
clean enough for a chemists use. Atten-
ton must also be called to the tooth brush,
which should always be thoroughly cleans
ed after using, and placed, handle down,
in an upright holder. | have found odor
enough about one tooth brush to infect the
atmosphere of common sleeping room
In regard to ventilation, open as many
doors and windows as possible, avoiding a
draft; but moving air IS absolutely indis-
pensabc to the health of the sleeper. Let
the bed stand as near the centre of the
room as possible, but on no account close
to the wall No one housekeeper may be
able to cary out all of these suggestions,
but it is the ideal, or housekeeping as it
ought to be, which should be held up to
the eye of the reader, that each one may
choose what she can best carry out in her
daily practice.-Nrs. L. j. X. Clifford, in
Good housekeeping.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-11-18
ROADSIDE NUT TREES.

Suppose the people of the older States
when laying out their highways through
the country and street in villages fifty or
hundred years ago had planted hardy nut
bearing trees instead of the naples, elms,
catalpas, poplars and similar kinds now
seen on every side, doing service only for
shade and ornament. Yes, suppose it had
been suggested that nut trees live to great
age, are handsome, afford as good shade as
other kinds, besides bearing seeds that are
valuable as food, and suppose these sugges-
lions had been acted upon by large major
ity of those who are about planting way
side trees? 1t certainly requires no great
stretch of Imagination to see what would
have been the result. Rows of fruitful and
noble shellbark hickories would now be
growing in hundreds of New England vii
lagos instead of the insect infested lindens,
the wood of which is not worth one-fourth
as much when cut down as the hickory or
in fact that of any of the walnuts. 1t is
true that the small boy might have enjoy
Ell une NUS from liltSo lTecs, anu OCCaoioh-
ally loitered by the way when going to, or
coming from school in order to fill his
pockets, still the possession OF such treas
ures usually gives more pleasure than their
cost in time.
What might have been now, may be real
lied twenty five or fifty years hence, it
those who are about planting street trees
in cities and villages and along the high
ways in the country will plant the best nut
bearing trees instead of the other kinds
which yield nothing of value and do not
afford any better shade than trees bearing
delicious fruits or nuts. In cultivating
nut trees we are not neglecting the @sthet-
les of our surroundings or that of the high
ways, for the hickorieS, walnuts and chest
nuts are as noble and beautiful trees as the
naples, lindens and other common and IA
miliar roadside trees. We admit our own
errors in this matter and now can only
wish that we could go back twenty-five
years and begin our work over again. In
our anxiety for variety and rapid growth
we sacrificed utility, securing great size
and bulk in trees which are of little or no
intrinsic Value Orchard and Garden.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-11-18
WHEN MY CHILDREN WERE ABOUT
ME-,

1t is with tender emotions that many
parent recalls such time. In the lone
illness Of his old age his thoughts often
revert to the years that are past and gone.
Bright scenes rise to his view. Then his
family was an unbroken and an undi-
minished household. The wife of his
youth was then with him, and all his
children young, happy group. To-
gether, day by day. they gathered around
the common board, day by day they
bowed at the same family altar. and day
by day they mingled in pleasant inter-
course, dwelling together in unity, Little
then did they realize how soon those
'happy. golden days would speed their
flight, no more to return. But SO has il
been. Death has invaded the loved circle
number. Others, one after another, as
they have grown up, have gone forth from
under the parental roof into the wide
world, and the home Of their childhood
shall no more be their abiding home.
Some Of them are far away. Occasionally
one ana another OF them revlSlts the old
homestead, but it is for only brief tarry.
Soon again farewell words are spoken,
and those who are bound to each other by
the dearest earthly ties part. The parents,
now old and gray headed, follow the de-
parting ones with their kindest benedic-
tons and prayers, realizing from time to
time more and more sensibly the uncer-
tainties of EARTH and the doubtfulness OF
renewed meetings. With fearful eyes at
the remembrance of months that are
past, " and of the days when their child
rem were about them,' they hopefully
anticipate the more blessed time when all
parents and children, having gone the way
whence they shall not return, shall meet
and greet each other in the heavenly
home, where partings shall be forever I'M
known and where, in the presence of the
great and good Father, and of their elder
Brother, they shall forever abide. --Rtrent,
in Nec York Obseruer
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-11-18
VOL. ~.
ONLY A DAY.

We should fill the hours with the sweetest
things
five had but day;
We should drink alone at the purest springs
In our onward way;
We should love with lifetime's love in an
If the hours Were few;
We should rest not for dreams, but for fresher
power
To be and to do.
We should guide our Maynard or wearied wills
By the clearest light;
We should keep our eyes on the heavenly hills
Ifthey lay in sight;
We should trample the pride and the dis
content
Beneath our feet
We should take whatever good God sent
With trust complete.
We should waste no moments in weak regret
If the day were but one;
If what we remember and what we forget
Went out with the sun,
We should be from our c'amorous selves set
free
To work or to pray,
And to be what the Father would have us be,
If we had but day.
Mary l.. Dickinson.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-11-18

Prices of Groceries. Best headlight,
high test coal oil, 10c. per gallon. We
don't keep the lower grades, there's
danger enough in the best. Lewis
lye, 10c.; saponifier, Sc. per box; puIe
pepper, zoe. h., &c. per quarter; pure
ginger, 16c. h., sc. per quarter; best
nutmegs, SC. per o.; extract coffee,
2boxes for &C.; baking soda, &c. paper,
or in bulk, the very best, SC. h.; large
bottles Rumford's yeast powder, 1Oc.;
large boxes sitting blue, &C.; large bot
ties Bengal blueing, &c.; best gran
ulated sugar, re. ;3lbs. Kings
ford's pure starch, $780,, single
pound, 7c.; corn starch, &c. h.; Proc
ter & Candles Oleine soap, &C.,
Pyles' Pearline, 7c., or 4 papers 25c.;
3 lbs. washing soda, 10c.; McMonigle
& Rogers, large bottles fruit extracts
lemon, 20c.; vanilla, 25c.; large bot
ties extract lemon, &c.; large bottles
castor oil, &c.; 2 ID. cans corned
beef, zoe. All groceries as low as the
times will admit.
II r. HUMPHREYS & co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-11-18

Miss Holly (who will always be known
as Josiah Aliens W ife) has never Joined
a woman's suffrage organization nor any
Prohibition party organization. She is
what may be called free lance. and that
because in this way she feels that she can
do the greatest good for both reforms. A
correspondent in Boston paper some
time ago said: Miss Holly's writings do
an immense amount of good in quiet
way. My husband would not touch q
woman's rights document, but he reads
eagerly Miss Holly's arguments, and calls
for more Miss Willard says more
effective book against the infamous license
system and in favor of righting the wron gs
of woman than Josiah Aliens Wife's
s.Sweet Cicelyn has never been written.